2010年10月26日星期二

Unthinkable/不可思议/战略特勤组

The story was not very complicated, but very well worth pondering. The point of the movie was not simply an ethical question: what's your choice if you HAVE TO sacrifice one person to save some others? As the example of the movie: a terrorist wanted to do something evil, and in order to save the innocent persons to be killed by him, do you prepare to use All (Note: All!) methods to trial him? There is no single Right answer for this question, everyone has a reason to make his own choice from his ethics and life experience.

Actually, personal choice doesn't matter much, the point of the problem is: why there are someone who would like to take such extreme and violent solutions to sacrifice tens of thousands of other people? What's his belief? What's the conflicts he faces? Why does he prefer to take such an extreme way to solve his problem? In order to avoid such situations, is there any other systematic ways? What kind of society do we expect to establish? -- Perhaps only at this point can we provide a more appropriate answer.

本片的情节并不十分复杂,但非常值得深思。本片的核心在于一个并不简单的伦理问题:倘若你必须牺牲一个人来拯救其他一些人,你会如何选择?如同片子中所举的例子:有恐怖分子图谋不轨,而为了拯救他可能将要杀害的那些无辜者,你是否准备使用一切(注意:一切!)手段来审讯他?这个问题并没有唯一正确的答案,每个人都会因为自己的伦理观和经历做出自己的选择。

其实,不管个人的选择如何,问题的根源在于:为什么有人会采取如此极端而暴力的解决方式?他的信仰是什么?他所面临的冲突是什么?为什么他宁愿采取这样极端的方式来解决问题?为了避免这样的情况产生,有没有制度性的办法来解决问题?我们期望建立一个什么样的社会?——也许到了这个层面,才能给出一个更合适的答案。

Performance impression:
Director: Gregor Jordan
Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Sheen


Unthinkable (2010) on IMDb

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